Review date - 4/10/14
Product Reviewed
The SR Sport is the top of the line Suomy helmet. I have never owned a Suomy and was excited to give it a try. In my opinion, a helmet is something you want the best in. I felt comfortable switching from my Shoei X-12 because of Suomy's amazing safety ratings (ECE 22-05, DOT, JIS, INMETRO NBR 7471). As a sponsored Sumoy racer, I ordered my helmet through Van Leeuwen Distributing (see their website for a list of retailers - http://www.vleonline.com). My helmet was literally at my house the day after I ordered it. My first impression taking helmet out of the nicely packaged box was, "Wow this thing is light". I thought my top of the line Shoei was light until I compared it to the Suomy. You don't realize how nice it is having a light helmet until you spend a day at the track with your neck in weird positions and feel the results the following day.
The paint job on the helmet was outstanding. I looked over the entire thing and couldn't find a single blemish. Suomy offers some really cool paint jobs for their helmets as well as solid colors.
The vent system was fairly straight forward. It had a vent at the chin and a vent on the forehead. The chin vent opened in a way that would allow great airflow while in a racing position. The forehead vent was large like the chin vent and could easily be operated while wearing gloves. My last helmet was very difficult to tell if the vents were open or closed, even with the helmet off. There were two exhaust vents on the top and two at the base of the helmet. The wind noise was at least as quiet as my Shoei (both worn with earplugs).
I purchased a smoked visor with the helmet. Switching out visors was extremely easy. A tab on each side flipped up and was then used to rotate the mounting plate. The plates came off and the visor followed. Putting the new one on was just as easy. Both the clear and the smoked visor were nice quality and had great vision. The side vision was much better than my old helmet.
Based on what I had read, I ordered an XXL size (I normally wear an XL Shoei for reference). The helmet fit well and was very comfortable, but could fit better. I ended up ordering a set of the next size smaller cheek pads. Once the cheek pads were in, the helmet was tight on my cheeks and fit perfect.
After the first race weekend with the helmet, I couldn't see myself using anything but a Suomy. The thing is awesome and is reasonably priced for a top of the line helmet. I would absolutely recommend this helmet.
The paint job on the helmet was outstanding. I looked over the entire thing and couldn't find a single blemish. Suomy offers some really cool paint jobs for their helmets as well as solid colors.
The vent system was fairly straight forward. It had a vent at the chin and a vent on the forehead. The chin vent opened in a way that would allow great airflow while in a racing position. The forehead vent was large like the chin vent and could easily be operated while wearing gloves. My last helmet was very difficult to tell if the vents were open or closed, even with the helmet off. There were two exhaust vents on the top and two at the base of the helmet. The wind noise was at least as quiet as my Shoei (both worn with earplugs).
I purchased a smoked visor with the helmet. Switching out visors was extremely easy. A tab on each side flipped up and was then used to rotate the mounting plate. The plates came off and the visor followed. Putting the new one on was just as easy. Both the clear and the smoked visor were nice quality and had great vision. The side vision was much better than my old helmet.
Based on what I had read, I ordered an XXL size (I normally wear an XL Shoei for reference). The helmet fit well and was very comfortable, but could fit better. I ended up ordering a set of the next size smaller cheek pads. Once the cheek pads were in, the helmet was tight on my cheeks and fit perfect.
After the first race weekend with the helmet, I couldn't see myself using anything but a Suomy. The thing is awesome and is reasonably priced for a top of the line helmet. I would absolutely recommend this helmet.
